Due to enough interest, I have produced another 60 pieces of FM-YAM! This time around I have teamed up with Protovision to do the sale, add Icomp cartridges and have a box and manual. So you can get your boxed unit soon! If you have reserved one through XeNTaX earlier, you have gotten email by now, since you get a headstart on getting your hands on one, before Protovision opens it up to anyone! Check your email!

A little belated message here on the front page, but on July 25th I shipped Batch 2 of FM-YAM to their new owners! If you don’t know what an FM-YAM is, it is a sound expansion for the Commodore 64 that will add the OPL2 audio chip (YM3812) via the expansion port. Read more about it at our dedicated page here! To date more than 200 cartridges have been sold! Still want one? There’s a few left.

Awesome news! Within less than one week we got enough paid reservations to start the production of a second batch of 120 FM-YAM units! The parts have been ordered! Of course, there will need to be a cap on the number of reservations that can be done to 100 first. We never know if all parts will work as expected and have to account for some faulty ones. But I am exited we can move ahead and to the second batch !

The first batch of 100(!) FM-YAM units shipped on the 16th of March 2018! A historical milestone! There are 20 more in an extended batch, of which only 10 are left. Those 10 people that reserved one in the range of reservation numbers 122 – 131 are in luck and got an email to purchase one of the last 10!

FM-YAM units are assembled the coming weeks and then ready for shipment! We changed the colour of the 3D printed cartridge cases to red, which is a lovely colour. So, FM-YAM is still set for a Q1 2018 release! Also, you can still reserve a unit, if I get sufficient reservations, I think I’ll do a second batch.

Over the course of just 1 week we’ve passed 100 reservations of FM-YAM! This is great news! The next step is the manufacturing of the units. If you reserved a unit, you will be receiving a payment notification as soon as it is ready to ship.

Yesterday marked the completion of the fully automated upload of more than 50.000 Commodore 64 SID tunes to a single YouTube channel, check my VLOG of it. I started this project at the end of April 2016, and coded the program that would automate the upload. See this picture here to see the number of uploads per day! It took 66 days from first upload to finish. Effectively, there were 57 days of non-stop uploading, day and night (since I went on a holiday in between). Here’s a link to the readme.txt of the tool I coded to do the job. Phase 2 will be expanding the channel, checking/fixing tunes, and much more. Stay “tuned” for new updates. To keep track of it all, go to the USHSC Facebook page and like it!